Aristotle's Rhetoric

An Art of Character

In this major contribution to philosophy and rhetoric, Eugene Garver shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his great treatise, the Rhetoric. He raises and answers a central question: can there be a civic art of rhetoric, an art that forms the character of citizens? By demonstrating the importance of the Rhetoric for understanding current philosophical problems of practical reason, virtue, and character, Garver has written the first work to treat the Rhetoric as philosophy and to connect its themes with parallel problems in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. Garver's study will help put rhetoric at the center of investigations of practice and practical reason.

Introdcution: Aristotle's Rhetoric and the Professionalization of Virtue

I. Aristotle's Rhetoric: Between Craft and Practical Wisdom Aristotle's Project: A civic, Practical Art of Rhetoric Guiding vs. Given Ends From Internal/External Ends to Energeia/KinesisRhetoric and PhronesisCivic vs. Professional Arts

II. The Kinds of Rhetoric The Plurality of Practical Discourse and the Diversity of Goods Plurality, Function, and the Three Kinfs of Rhetoric Plurality, Diversity, and the Incommensurablility From Guiding Ends to Species

IV. Deliberative Rationality and the Emotions Corrupting and Enabling Emotions The Place of the Emotions in Rhetorical Arugment Love and Anger, Eunia and Thymos Aristotle's Definition of Emotion: How Emotions Modify Judgment Pleasure, Pain, and Good Practical Decisions The Political Function of Emotion The Emotions, Good Action, and the Good Life

VI. Making Discourse Ethical: Can I Be Too Rational? The Problem and the Evidence Character and Rhetorical Invention Why Rhetorical Needs Ethos Ethos and Trust: SPeaker and Audience Artful Ethos and Real Ethos How Maxims Make Discourse Ethical Rhetoric, Cleverness, and Phronesis

VII. How to Tell the Rhetorician from the Sophist, and Which One to Bet OnEnergeia and Praxis The Internal Ends of Art and Virtue The Art and Virtue of Truth-telling The Moral Point of View and the Rhetorical Point of View The Moral Ambiguity of Rhetoric, and the Moral Ambiguity of Morality

VIII. Aristotle's Rhetoric and the History of Prudence

Notes

Bibliography

Index to Passages from Aristotle General Index

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